diff --git a/.changeset/docker-git-lfs.md b/.changeset/docker-git-lfs.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..1b87ec38f3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/docker-git-lfs.md
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+---
+"@runfusion/fusion": patch
+---
+
+summary: The Docker image now ships git-lfs, so LFS-tracked files check out as real content instead of stubs.
+category: fix
+dev: The repository stores binary assets (screenshots) as Git LFS objects, but the runner stage installed plain `git`. Without git-lfs, `git checkout`/`clone` writes ~130-byte pointer files in place of the real content AND reports a clean tree — an agent reading one gets a text stub where an image should be, and any `git lfs` subcommand fails outright. Verified in the running container: `screenshots/fn-061-medieval-desktop.png` was a `version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1` stub across 129 tracked files, and became a valid 753KB PNG after installing git-lfs and running `git lfs pull`. Added to the runner apt install alongside git, with the Dockerfile manifest guard extended so it cannot be dropped again.
diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index f3d7a9f3da..14f16303c0 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -77,8 +77,13 @@ ENV PORT=4040
 # FNXC:DockerRun 2026-08-18-06:05: ripgrep ships by default because the coding agents Fusion drives
 # reach for `rg` as their primary search tool; without it they silently degrade to slower/partial
 # fallbacks inside the container while working fine on a developer machine that has it installed.
+# FNXC:DockerRun 2026-08-20-04:30: git-lfs ships by default because this repository stores binary
+# assets (screenshots) as LFS objects. Without it, git silently checks out 130-byte POINTER FILES
+# instead of the real content and reports a clean tree — so an agent reads a text stub where an image
+# should be, and `git lfs` subcommands in any workflow fail outright. It is a git dependency, not an
+# optional extra: the failure is silent corruption of a working checkout, not a missing feature.
 RUN apt-get update \
-  && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends git ca-certificates ripgrep curl gnupg \
+  && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends git git-lfs ca-certificates ripgrep curl gnupg \
   && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
 
 # FNXC:DockerRun 2026-08-18-06:40: gh, tailscale, and cloudflared ship in the image.
diff --git a/screenshots/fn-096-chat-header-new-desktop.png b/screenshots/fn-096-chat-header-new-desktop.png
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diff --git a/screenshots/fn-096-chat-header-new-mobile.png b/screenshots/fn-096-chat-header-new-mobile.png
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diff --git a/screenshots/fn-099-task-chat-model-menu-desktop.png b/screenshots/fn-099-task-chat-model-menu-desktop.png
index 490bed5361..965f489d37 100644
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diff --git a/screenshots/fn-099-task-chat-model-menu-mobile.png b/screenshots/fn-099-task-chat-model-menu-mobile.png
index 95cdfae257..97a1b68416 100644
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diff --git a/scripts/__tests__/dockerfile-workspace-manifests.test.mjs b/scripts/__tests__/dockerfile-workspace-manifests.test.mjs
index b6c36a5269..abbc882612 100644
--- a/scripts/__tests__/dockerfile-workspace-manifests.test.mjs
+++ b/scripts/__tests__/dockerfile-workspace-manifests.test.mjs
@@ -131,6 +131,16 @@ test("runner stage installs ca-certificates alongside git", () => {
     /\bripgrep\b/,
     "runner stage must install ripgrep — the coding agents Fusion drives use `rg` as their primary search tool",
   );
+  /*
+  FNXC:DockerRun 2026-08-20-04:30:
+  Without git-lfs, git checks out 130-byte pointer files in place of LFS-tracked binaries and still
+  reports a clean tree — silent corruption of a working checkout rather than a visibly missing tool.
+  */
+  assert.match(
+    aptInstall,
+    /\bgit-lfs\b/,
+    "runner stage must install git-lfs — LFS-tracked assets otherwise check out as pointer stubs and git reports the tree clean",
+  );
 });
 
 /*